In an advance that may give brewers powerful new ability to engineer the flavor and aroma of beer — the world’s favorite alcoholic beverage — scientists are publishing the most comprehensive deciphering of the beer’s “proteome” ever reported.
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A new approach to anchor teeth back in the jaw using stem cells has been developed and successfully tested in the laboratory for the first time.
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While refining their novel method for making nanoscale wires, chemists discovered an unexpected bonus — a new way to create nanowires that produce light similar to that from light-emitting diodes.
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A new study suggests that mothers who consume a diet high in trans fats double the likelihood that their infants will have high levels of body fat.
The key to the stability of any building is its foundation, but it is difficult to test some building sites in advance — such as those on the moon. New research is helping resolve the problem by using computer models that can utilize a small sample of soil to answer fundamental questions about how soil [...]
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Early life stress, such as an extreme lack of parental affection, has lasting effects on a gene important to normal brain processes and also tied to mental disorders, according to a new animal study.
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A study shows that under specific conditions, a rhesus macaque monkey that normally would fail the mark test can still recognize itself in the mirror and perform actions that scientists would expect from animals that are self-aware.
Researchers have published the first report using imaging to show that changes in brain tissue can occur in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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A new movie and images showing Saturn’s shimmering aurora over a two-day period are helping scientists understand what drives some of the solar system’s most impressive light shows.
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New research shows that an intravenous treatment — called dexamethasone — may cut a person’s risk of dying from bacterial meningitis.
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